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[chief_exec @chief_exec]

@GailVazOxlade It's not something we would do often, but with some hesitation I had started planning a family trip to Boston later this month. Two adults, two children. Then the orange man started up again. I cancelled our hotel reservation and we will go to Montreal instead.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ben McKenzie: I'm an author and filmmaker. I spent the last several years documenting fraud and other criminal activity in the cryptocurrency industry. I believe we are at a point of crisis when it comes to crypto's influence over our legislative process. Recent reporting from just last week reveals a foreign company that issues a cryptocurrency used by major criminal organizations appears to have shaped Trump's signature piece of legislation, the GENIUS Act, while at the same time forging deep financial relationships with members of the executive branch.

[chief_exec @chief_exec]

@DeanAllisonMP "The Liberals are up one point, the Conservatives are unchanged, and the NDP is down one," said David Valentin of Liaison Strategies. "It is not a dramatic shift, but it is another week where the Liberals are in the mid-40s, and the Conservatives are stuck in the mid-30s."

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

All hands on deck: only buy Canadian honey. Our beekeepers need us.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Boycott everything possible that's American. There's no deal to be had. Buy from anywhere else but there.

https://t.co/FsYpVas2RJ

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month.

This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Erin Brockovich: When I put this map out, in the first 72 hours, the map crashed twice, and I woke up on day 3 going, oh my God, it's not one town and one data center, it's the entire country. They had no idea. They woke up to this construction. They weren't informed. City council didn't tell them anything. Because these big tech groups came in and put these city council members under NDAs.

[Flavio Volpe, C.M. @FlavioVolpe1]

My takeaway:

Better to not judge these actions by their proclamations’ titles.

When you read the tariff schedules, the real commercial impacts & the negotiating strategy are revealed.

No new targets - dairy, lumber, booze - but new tactics.

/end.

[Just Dempsey @LifeInThe306]

The Truth About Milk 🥛🇨🇦🇺🇸

Yes, Canada has high over-quota dairy tariffs on the books. But here’s the part that keeps getting left out:

They’ve never been triggered on U.S. milk under USMCA. Not once.

The U.S. gets a large tariff-free quota to sell dairy into Canada. Those quotas have never been filled, so the 200–300% over-quota tariffs have never actually been applied to U.S. exports. Even the U.S. dairy industry has acknowledged it has never come close to exceeding the quotas.

Canada is a country of just 41 million people. We simply don’t consume enough imported U.S. dairy to hit the quota limits. The “270% tariff on Canadian milk” talking point/ sound bite leaves out the most important fact: it has never actually been charged on U.S. exports.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really dumb.

Canada is our closest ally and the top buyer of American exports on Earth. These tariffs hit about $20 billion in goods and apply even to products protected under the USMCA trade deal Trump himself signed and bragged about.

You cannot negotiate a trade agreement, sign it, celebrate it, then blow it up and expect anyone to trust the next deal.

And who actually pays? American importers and American families.

Tariffs are a tax on us.

Ontario’s premier is already calling for dollar-for-dollar retaliation, which means our farmers and exporters get hammered next.

We’ve seen this movie before. Canada retaliates, US alcohol sales there already dropped 81%, and everyone loses. Picking a trade war with your friendliest neighbor over hockey sticks and milk is economic self-sabotage dressed up as toughness while working families foot the bill.
https://t.co/JPOXN2DQza

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

Keep calm and carry on Canada.
Two thoughts on the timing of the latest tariff pronouncement. First, it came the same day the 3rd most popular podcast in the US - NYT’s The Daily - featured the USTR delivering a weak defence of US Tariff policy and its impact on consumers. 1/3

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.

Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Climate change.

Canada’s boreal forest is far north.

Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer.

Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time.

This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long.

Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem.

Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now.

The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment.

Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts.

Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region.

Now we get them annually.

Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning.

It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread.

These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware.

From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours.

While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.

[Thomas Drance @ThomasDrance]

My Twitter feed: “Canadian smoke is ruining my summer.”

My lived reality: Sitting on a boat watching thick smoke roll over lake Osoyoos 🇨🇦 blown in from the south and caused by a wildfire North of Wanatchee in Washington State 🇺🇸.

A little summer reminder to log off.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

Americans lecturing Canadians about better forest management in a year when US wildfire burn area is on track to surpass 6 million acres is... peak Americaness.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

As American politicians rage about Canadian wildfires spreading smoke into our airspace, American wildfires are jumping the border into Canada.

[Donna L. Byers Artist/Author #smokefleet🎨🌊💙⚖ @D_ByersArtist]

From Osoyoos BC: As you can see, thick smoke is rolling in from the south & the smell of forest fire is strong. This isn't from a fire in Canada, it's from a big fire in Nespelem, Washington state, but we're not complaining. Know why? Because we understand how fire, wind, & the jetstream work. Hoping our southerly neighbors in Washington stay safe & obey evac orders. Prayers up for those in harm's way.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Under Donald Trump, the United States is perceived by former allies as predatory, untrustworthy, and deeply corrupt. Allies and adversaries alike assess US policy to be driven by malice, impulse, ignorance, arrogance, and bribery. 10/x

[chief_exec @chief_exec]

@RJMcClelland hey Google how do petitions work

[David Portier @davidportier]

🇨🇦 Canada got further than:

🇩🇪 Germany
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇺🇾 Uruguay
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇰🇷 South Korea
🇸🇳 Senegal
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇦🇹 Austria
🇹🇷 Türkiye
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
🇦🇺 Australia
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇮🇷 Iran
🇹🇳 Tunisia
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇿🇦 South Africa
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇵🇦 Panama
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇨🇩 DR Congo
🇳🇿 New Zealand
🇨🇻 Cape Verde
🇭🇹 Haiti
🇨🇼 Curaçao